Nearing completion on the Roubo-style bench. Legs in, vise mounted and tuned. Now to flatten the top and install the shelf. Then back to real projects.

Bored out most of the waste in the chop mortise. Horray for drill presses.

That crisscross mortise is a beast. My drill press and my router plane are my two new best friends.

Got the top joined — it’s two 12×6  beams, came in at 22″ wide and just shy of 8′ long. Doing an edge joint that long across 5″ is … fun. Lots of flipping the top up with the help of my lovely wife, checking the fit, flipping it back down, planing out some spots, flep it again, check… Took a good hour to do the final fitting.

I put the leg blanks on to start figuring out which one will go where.

And I’ve got to start looking at how to layout the bits for the hardware…